- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always my plan to go big on 'Jeopardy!,' and I'm glad I was able to stick to the plan under pressure.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nerves were so badly compressed that I had no feeling on the palm of my hand. I mean, you could have pounded a nail through my hand and I wouldn't have been able to feel it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.
- Blown Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020